The Saudi Connection to the Mumbai Massacres: Strategic Implications for Israel


 

Publication Date: February 2009

Publisher: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Author(s): Jonathan Fighel

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: hamas; radical Islam; global terrorism; saudi arabia

Type: Report

Coverage: Saudi Arabia

Abstract:

The Mumbai attacks have been linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and radical Islamic groups in Kashmir generally. Yet it would be a mistake to see Lashkar only as a local organization with only a local agenda.

Saudi Arabia has contributed very much to what Lashkar-e-Taiba looks like, how it thinks, its motivation, ideology, and funding. Saudi Arabia presents itself as the protector and the spearhead of the defense of Muslims around the world against what they define as the Western cultural attack.